Improved rotating clothes-drier



UNITED STATns PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM BOYERS, OF MOUNT CARROLL, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN L. LIVINGSTON AND JOHN B. SI-IAFFER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED ROTATINO CLOTHES-DRIER.-

Specification forming part ot Letters Patent No. 34,802, dated March 25, 1862.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BovERs, of Mount Oarrolhin the county of Carroll, in the State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Rotating-Cord Clothes-Drier; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eXact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in enabling persons to hang out clothes to dry from an upper window or door of a building and take them in again wheny dry by constructing my clothes-drier so that it can be operated upon at a given point by attaching it at an elevation to the corners of a house, and the operator standing at the window or door,which will also secure the clothes from thieves, and when the house is not properly constructed, and it is desired, Ithen raise the pulleys and endless rotating cord on the top of three or more posts and operate from aplatform, thereby avoiding unnecessary exposure.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I construct of Wood or metal three or more spiral grooved bell-shaped pulleys, as shown I at A, Figures l and 2 in the drawings, iianged at the top B, and having four or more proj ections at the lower end c c c c, with a pivot through the center to attach it, as at D, Fig. 1, to the braced projection from the house, and also to allow them (the pulleys) to rotate on their axes. W'heu attached to the end or other part of a building, I use braced projections of wood or metal, as at E E E, Fig. 1,to suspend the pulleys from.

When the house is not suitable, or when it is desired to have the clothes-drier in the yard or lot, Iplant thre'e or more posts F F F, Fig. 2, and attach the pulleys at the top, as shown on the drawings at G G G, and have a platform H, Fig. 2, to hang t-he clothes from, and also to take them down when dry.

The operation is performed as follows: A piece of clothing is attached to the rotating line I I I I. It is then drawn or rotated sufficiently to attach another piece, and so on until it is full or the clothes are all out. When dry, they are taken 01T in the saine manner. The spiral grooves J J J J on the pulleys are intended to raise up the line when depressed from the weight of the clothes or from the slacking of the cord by simply moving the cord along (which will rotate the pulleys on their axes) to add more clothes.

The combination of the spiral grooved bellshaped flanged pulleys attached by braced projections to a building, or placed upon three or more posts, in connection with the endless cord, all arranged substantially as and t'or the XVitnesses:

M. D. RAPP, JOHN B. CHRISTIAN. 

